Rant: Brass coated steel cases!

[SouperMan]

Did some reloading housekeeping today and was washing the brass. Normally I separate and file aluminum/steel cases in the trash can but when I was finished tumbling I discovered these:



Argh!

/Rant

Have a happy reloading Sunday, folks!

[bazineta]

I feel your pain. One thing that's handy about stainless wet tumbling is that you use a magnet to separate the pins from the cases when done, and that'll find those evil things quickly.

[rsrocket1]

Are those Berdan primed? If not, load em up for when you go out shooting and you can't pick up (or find) your cases. Once and done plinkers.


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[SouperMan]

Are those Berdan primed? If not, load em up for when you go out shooting and you can't pick up (or find) your cases. Once and done plinkers.


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Affirmative, they are Berdan primed but I was under the impression that one should not reload steel cased ammo.

The cases in question were ammo from Freedom Munition's American Steel line of ammo.

[Eljay]

I think you just had a little brain freeze - they're Boxer primed which is the easy to reload kind.

re: reloading steel, it's possible. It requires more force and your chance of cracking goes way up and it's not worth it for 9mm, that's for sure, that stuff you can find all over the place. I added a step to sweep my 9mm with a magnet when I set it out to dry but the pictures I've seen of this stuff tumbled so far it ends up looking odd to one extent or another after wet tumbling so maybe it's not necessary.

[hambam105]

After you washed your brass, did you put the brass in the oven to dry the pieces? Will those discolored pieces stick to a magnet?

I left some wet rifle brass in the oven a bit too long and they came out very dry with similar looking splotches.